Sheriff's kill African immigrant in custody via Tazer torture

While people talk about torture and prisoner abuse in American
military prisons, prisoners in the United States are equally subjected
to similar abuses in direct violation of the U.S. Constitution and all
national and international agreements on basic human rights.

When
African people in the U.S. and other minorities lodge complaints and
feelings of fear and loathing for American law enforcement, these cries
for justice are routinely derided as playing the "Race Card," or lazy
people looking for excuses for thier social condition. Instead of
American society taking responsibility for what happens right under
thier own supposely democractic noses, this sort of abuse is condoned
by the American public as justified violence against a vague crimminal
element.

Even after the photos appeared in teh mainstream press
concerning America's military detainment centres in Cuba and Iraq,
Americans still refused to take responsibility and demand that their
leaders be held accountable for doing exactly what the Bush
administration accused the Saddam Hussein government of.

Rape,
physical abuse, emotional deprivation measures, religious insult and
murder are part and parcel of the U.S. occupation of Iraq as well as in
America's stateside jails. When one considers that the soldiers
convicted of prisoner abuse under CIA direction were U.S. Army
reservists worked as correction officers in thier civilian lives, the
question begs to be asked: When will American stop the practise of
torture??

- The Angryindian

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The video to this atrocity is availble for viewing online at Live Leak

Please be advised that the material is strong and should not be viewed by sensitive persons.

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The
use of electric shock as a method of torture was first documented in
Nazi, Germany, but today it is still used as an acceptable use of
torture in the United States.
In Gwinnett County, Georgia, an un-edited police videotape shows
31-year-old Deacon Frederick Williams being struck with a TASER five
times in 43 seconds, just 4 minutes after being led into the jail.
He was handcuffed behind his back and in leg restraints, following an
epileptic seizure at his home; an ambulance was called by his wife and
son, but the police arrived first. His last words were: "Don't kill me,
man. Don't kill me."
No charges have been filed in the torture / execution; the County DA
refused to show this video to a Grand Jury, even though another man in
custody was murdered just months earlier after being tortured with a
TASER by the same police.
Coverage from some of the local media is here: http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=62415

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0505-24.htm

http://brownwatch.squarespace.com/police-brutality-watch/2006/4/9/gwinnett-county-deputy-impleads-taser-company-in-death-of-hog-tied-black-man.html

http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/index.php?s=&url_channel_id=&url_article_id=13652&change_well_id=2

http://www.saveourcivilliberties.org/en/2005/04/1070.shtml

While
the Bush administration seeks to reinterpret the Geneva Conventions to
allow the torture for foreign detainees, few people realize that
torture is already 100% legal in the US when a US citizen is tortured
by American State or Federal authorities.
The torture standards now under debate relate only to foreign
detainees, who presently retain far more rights than any US citizen.
However, the Bush administration has refused to address the documented
and widespread torture of its own citizens of which its own officials
are fully aware.
A complete copy of the police-recorded footage on DVD is also available
at no charge upon request.